Saturday Track Reports September 19 - Five Metro Meetings

The track's currently a Good 4 with the rail in the seven-metre position.

We've applied 28mm of irrigation for the last seven days, predominantly late last week, but the track's certainly in good order. There's a little bit of light marking from the last race meeting, but nothing that will impact racing.

The forecast for race day Saturday is a top of 25 degrees and a light north wind, which is a headwind in the side straight. I do expect the track to improve throughout the day with that warm temperature, but I expect every horse to have their chance.

Track rating: Good 4

Grass coverage: Good

Irrigation: Nil in the last 24 hours and 6mm in the last seven days.

Rainfall: 0mm in the last 24 hours and 1.5mm in the last seven days.

Rail position and why: +3m from the 1000m to the winning post, True remainder — moving out to the best available ground.

Verdict: The track currently walks in the Good range. Fine conditions were forecast over the following 24 hours and the expectation was for the track to hold in the Good range on Saturday, with more irrigation to be applied later Friday.

The track has a good cover of grass; however, there is some marking across the whole track.

We've got a Good 4 track rating today. We've applied 10mm of irrigation for the week. We'll monitor it this afternoon and see whether we're going to apply any more — probably up to 4mm.

The rail's out six metres. We pushed it out just over the marking from the previous meeting a fortnight ago and we're on a lovely pad of grass. The Kikuyu is really starting to come on now with the warmer weather.

Our forecast is for 18 today, 22 tomorrow on Friday and Saturday's a lovely day at around 28 degrees. The wind's a bit swirly — it'll come in from the west and end up in the north-northeast during the day.